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毌

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵

pierce through

HSK 10

Human →Relations

guàn

カン

つらぬ.く

Variant of 貫. Depicts a string being pierced through a shell (貝), similar to 串.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Bronze

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

毌

Regular

Modern

Chinese

毌 [guàn]

archaic variant of 貫|贯[guàn]

Example Sentences